MERLIN CARPENTER

BIOGRAPHY

Born 1967 in Pembury, UK Lives in Shepperton, UK, works in London, UK, and Berlin, Germany

EDUCATION

1986-1989 Central Saint Martin’s School of Art, London, UK

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021 Room Based, Guzzler, Rosanna, Victoria, Australia

2020 Paint-It-Yourself, Reena Spaulings, New York, NY Circuits, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium Circuits, Palette Terre, Paris, France archive élastique, Centre d’art contemporain la synagogue de Delme, Delme, France

2019 Merlin Carpenter, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK

2018 Not Doing a Show in FPÖ Austria, Nousmoules, Vienna, Austria De Streepschilderijen, Overduin & Co., Amsterdam, The Netherlands De Streepschilderijen – L.A. HUB, Overduin & Co., Los Angeles, CA

2017 Do Not Open Until 2081, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK (exh. cat) Title of Show, Christian Andersen, Copenhagen, Denmark Business Women, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany

2016 Blogs of the Near Future, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium

2015 Hands Against Hands, Reena Spaulings, New York, NY MIDCAREER PAINTINGS, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland (exh. cat) Poor Leatherette, MD 72, Berlin, Germany Formalist Sidewalk Poetry Club, Formalist Sidewalk Poetry Club, Miami, FL

2014 DECADES, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong MERLIN, Overduin & Co., Los Angeles, CA

2013 DECADES, Galeria Nuno Centeno, Porto, Portugal Solo Show II - All Power to the Factory Outlets, Temnikova & Kasela Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia Support nightclub experience Nightclub, Uma Certa Falta de Coerência, Porto, Portugal POLICE, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium (exh. cat)

2012 funky house, Limazulu Project Space, London, UK Au Café, Bar de la Victoire / Bureau Capan-Bordes, Nice, France TATE CAFÉ, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, NY

2011 TATE CAFÉ, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK „Heroes”, MD 72, Berlin, Germany Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles, CA

2010 Solo Show, Formalist Sidewalk Poetry Club, Miami, FL

Ballard in Narnia, the interzone, London, UK (with Richard Parry)

2009 The Opening, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium The Opening, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK

2008 The Opening, Galerie Mitterrand + Sanz, Zürich, Switzerland

The Opening, Galerie Christian Nagel (at Mercedes-Welt am Salzufer & The Corner Berlin), Berlin, Germany The Opening, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles, CA

2007 The Opening, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, NY

Relax It's Only a Bad Cosima von Bonin Show, Galerie Bleich-Rossi, Vienna, Austria (exh. cat)

2006 Sounds of War, Galerie Edward Mitterrand, Geneva, Switzerland

2005 A Roaring RAMPAGE of Revenge, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, NY Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany Look What You Made Me Do, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway

2004 Nueva Generación, Distrito 4, Madrid, Spain (exh. cat) Take It Easy Default, M-Project, Paris, France

2003 Children of the Projects, American Fine Arts, Co., New York, NY When in Doubt Blame the Victim, Galerie Bleich-Rossi, Graz, Austria (with Jeremy Glogan)

2002 The Making of 1945, 1997 (screening), The McAllister Institute, New York, NY Militant, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany (exh. cat)

2001 My Father, the Castaway, WhiteCube, Kunstakademi Bergen, Bergen, Norway

2000 When You Drain the Pool, You Don't Consult the Frogs First, Magnani, London, UK Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany As a Painter I Call Myself the Estate of, Secession, Vienna, Austria (exh. cat) VOLVO, Galerie Bleich-Rossi, Graz, Austria

1999 Survivors, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany

1998 Doppelganger, The Top Room, London, UK

Chant No 1, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany

1996 Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY

1995 Voluntary Effort, Tom Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles, CA

1994 Friedrich Petzel/Nina Borgmann, New York, NY

1993 Meet You by the Strange Twisted Old Oak Tree on the Secluded Knoll at Dawn in Your Swimming Trunks and I'll Tell You Something Secret. (Don't Be Late). (with Nils Norman), Galerie Z, Göttingen, Germany Les Jeunes, Bruno Brunnet Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany

1992 Meadow/Wiese, Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne, Germany

1991 Electric, Pavillon Ryszard Varisella, organised by Galerie Grässlin-Ehrhardt, Frankfurt, Germany To the extreme, Fettstrasse 7A (Birgit Küng), Zürich, Switzerland

1990 Crusade, Münzstrasse 10, Hamburg, Germany

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 Os Conviventes, Nuno Centeno, Porto, Portugal Party de campagne, exposition hors les murs, Centre d’art contemporain - la synagogue de Delme, Delme, France Sarah Staton: Supastore Southside, Slingbacks & Sunshine, South London Gallery, London, UK 2020 WORDS, Simon Lee Gallery, Online The Sewers of Mars, Reena Spaulings, New York, NY FAKTURA (FOR A NERVOUS SPIRIT), Kim? Contemporary Art Center, Riga, Latvia

2019 Die bucklige Verwandtschaft - Huchbacked Relation, Nagel Draxler, Cologne, Germany

2018 The Vitalist Economy of Painting by Isabelle Graw, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany Relevelations, curated by Robert Mϋller, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Rome, Italy Sad Movie, Kunsthalle Freeport, Bangkok (with Tobias Kaspar)

Mad World, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA Trance – By Albert Oehlen, Aishti Art Foundation, Jal el Dib, Lebanon Distropical Encounters, In extenso offsite at TARS Gallery, Bangkok (with Tobias Kaspar) Optik Schröder II, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria (exh. cat) The Church Painting Show, Blackwing Studios, London, UK DEATH LOLZ Presents..., Peak, London, UK Readymades Belong to Everyone, Swiss Institute, New York, NY

2017 in search of characters…, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany New Pleasure, Simon Lee Gallery, New York, NY The Painting Show, Aram Art Gallery, Goyang Aram Nuri Arts Centre, Seoul, South Korea PAINTING | OR | NOT, The Kaviar Factory, Henningsvaer, Norway Peace Love and Anarchy = Freedom and Fun Forever, The Horse Hospital, London, UK Pje. Corina. Ka, Feria de Arte Contemporaneo Argentino, Hipodromo de Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina TISCH, Kiefholzstrasse 401, Berlin, Germany ‘All Day Breakfast’, Munchees Café, Reading, UK CONTROL 20, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, UK The Painting Show, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland Readymade, Eva Presenhuber House, Vnà, Switzerland (Ex. Cat)

2016 Multiplier, Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium The Squatter, Gaudel de Stampa, Paris, France THE GEO POLITICS OF MONETIZED AIRSPACE — Come Fly with Me, I Meet You by the Airside Gucci Concession at 4, Fox Fur Hat, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN Putting Rehearsals to the Test, VOX, the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, and SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art Montreal (QC), Canada Convergence, Stonescape, Calistoga, CA Fora da ordem – obras da Coleção Helga de Alvear, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria (Ex. Cat.) La Collection Thea Westreich Wagner et Ethan Wagner, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (Ex. Cat.) On Limits: Estrangement in the Everyday, The Kitchen, New York, NY Paris – Bruxelles, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium The Painting Show, Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania (Ex. Cat.) Frenemies: Art Versus Commodity, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA Le Bourgeois, 3236RLS, London, UK International Fun, Temnikova & Kasela, Tallinn, Estonia

2015 Mega Por No, Colmegna Spa, Buenos Aires, Argentina Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (exh. cat) Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, Museum Brandhorst, Munich Faux Amis, Simon Lee Gallery, London wow! Woven? Entering the (sub) Textiles, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria (exh. cat) Macumba Night Club éditions - Merlin Carpenter / Jérôme Robbe, Artothèque de Villeurbanne, France Please respond-, M/L Artspace, Venice, Italy Selbstjustiz Durch Fehleinkäufe, Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg, Germany The 60s, watch it gallery, London, UK MUSEUM SHOW by Nang Gallery, Centre Pompidoo-doo, London, UK Call and Response, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, NY

2014 Excerpts from / How They Met. Part 1: Mother and Her House / Supastore / The Issues of Our Time (1&3) / Fille/Garçon / In the Middle of Affairs, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna, Austria BAR DREI, 681 Morgan Ave, Greenpoint, New York, NY Hard Words, Christian Andersen Gallery, Copenhagen Concept Store, Nest, The Hague, The Netherlands kim? Salon, kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia Coming of Age for Ages, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany The Hawker, dépendance at Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK Frieze Art Fair, booth of dépendance, Brussels

Merlin and Isabelle Bankside Launch - A Graduate Exhibition by Sabrina Tarasoff, Paris, France

2013 The November Issue, Mathew, Berlin, Germany Performance, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Please Come to the Show, Part II (1980-Now), Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, NY „Why Painting Now?“, Cover Up Curated by Antony Hudek, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria

2012 Redundanz, Dependance der Galerie für Landschaftskunst Hamburg in der Wandelhalle Bad Tölz, Tölz, Germany Port, Galeria Nuno Centeno, Porto, Portugal Context Message, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY POST MoDERN, curated by Clayton Deutsch, Friedric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL

2011 Mathew, Berlin, Germany The Institute of Mental Health is Burning, Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Wales, UK Rituals of the Art World, Ludlow 38, New York, NY Rebus, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany

2010 Novel, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium

Barbaric Freedom, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK

2009 Malen ist Wahlen, 1981-2009, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, Germany Paintings By, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix, LiFE, Saint Nazaire, France; Museion, Bolzano, Italy; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany; Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden; and CA2M, Madrid, Spain Untitled (History Painting), University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI WIR VERBESSERN IHRE ARBEIT, Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin, Germany (show by Instituto Divorciado)

2008 The Coma Lounge Edinburgh, The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK Congratulations You Are Represented By Nang Gallery, Nang Gallery, London, UK (and other Nang shows late 2008) Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix, Museion, Bolzano, Italy. (exh. cat) Buy No Wino Buy Lino By Bono, Hats Plus, London, UK Painting: Now and Forever, Part II, Greene Naftali Gallery / Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY How Can You Represent When You Can't Pay The Rent, The New Dome, Cable St. Studios, London, UK Zodiac 3000, International Project Space, Birmingham, UK (exh. cat) DO WHAT THY WILLT, Nang Gallery, London, UK

2007 Élégance, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany Genesis I'm Sorry, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY (collaboration with Melanie Gilligan)

2006 LIVE HUMANS, The George Tavern, London, UK Make Your Own Life, Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA slow burn, curated by Jonah Freeman, Galerie Edward Mitterrand, Geneva, Switzerland

2005 Painters Without Paintings & Paintings Without Painters, Orchard, New York, NY The Top Room: A Retrospective, Chelsea Space, London, UK TOTAL ASBO, Pogo Cafe, London, UK Miradas y conceptos en la colección Helga de Alvear, MEIAC, Badajoz, Spain Islands of Glory in Streets Caked With the Fæces of Decadence, Nang Gallery, London, UK

2004 Werkleitz Biennale, Halle, Germany Edge of the Real, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

2003 Wild Nights: Remembering Colin de Land, CB's 313 Gallery, New York, NY Messe in der Galerie, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany Haupt- und Nebenwege, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany Frieze Art Fair, booth of Galerie Christian Nagel, London, UK Malerei II Ausstellung Nulldrei, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany

2002 Art Crazy Nation Show, MK G, Milton Keynes, UK

2001 Favoritin, Danzigerstr. 44, Berlin, Germany Jewels-in-Art, Galerie Bleich-Rossi, Graz, Austria Works on Aluminum Selected by Paper, WhiteCube, Kunstakademi Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Musterkarte, Goethe-Institut, Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Galería Elba Benítez, Galería Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid, Spain

2000 Girlfriend, curated by Sarah Morris, Galerie für Zeitgenössiche Kunst, Leipzig, Germany 21st Gear, The Top Room, London, UK It May be a Year of Thirteen Moons But it's Still the Year of Culture, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK Drawings, Taché-Lévy Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Part One, Magnani, London, UK

1999 Painting Lab, Entwistle Gallery, London, UK Malerei, INIT Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany How Will We Behave, Robert Prime, London, UK Taché-Lévy Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

1998 Art Club Berlin, Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona, Spain Art Club Berlin, Berlin Art Forum, Berlin, Germany

1995 The Message is the Medium, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY

1994 The Ideal Place, Haags Centrum Voor Aktuelle Kunst, The Hague, The Netherlands Sarah Staton's Supastore Boutique, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, UK Untitled Group Show, Metro Pictures, New York, NY Sammlung Volkmann, Berlin, Germany Museum auf Zeit, Fridericianum Museum, Kassel, Germany

1993 London Photo Race, Friesenwall 120, Cologne, Germany Galerie Fettsack, Friesenwall 120, Cologne, Germany

1992 A Show by Kiron Khosla, The Long Gallery, Chelsea Old Town Hall, London, UK Bruno Brunnet Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany

1991 Paris Bar, Berlin, Germany Group Show, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY Fallen und Fallen Lassen, Galerie Bleich-Rossi, Graz, Austria

1990 Peace and anarchy & I love form but she doesn't love me & strange flowers & homage to Schnabel equals freedom and fun forever, 64-65 Guilford St., London, UK Heimspiel, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

1989 Rotation - Art Critic's Art, Galerie Esther Schipper, Cologne, Germany

SELECTED PROJECTS

2013 Burberry Propaganda Tour 2013 (organised by Alina Astrova)

2010 onwards salon 4, London, UK

2005 onwards Nang Gallery, London, UK

2001 - 2004 merlinstore, merchandising website

1998 onwards Victim

1994 - 1996 Poster Studio, London, UK

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

PUBLICATIONS

2015 S.Hudson, Painting Now, Thames & Hudson, New York, NY, p. 183, 187.

2011 K. Toffoletti, Baudrilliard Reframed, I.B. Tauris, London/New York, pp. 51-55. C. Busta, Art and Subjecthood, Sternberg Press, Berlin, p. 38.

2009 I. Graw, High Price, Sternberg Press, Berlin, pp. 214 & 221.

2008 A. Goldstein, The Problem Perspective, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 93 & 103. I. Graw, Der große Preis, Dumont, Berlin, pp. 220 & 226.

2010 Merlin Carpenter: Social Aesthetics, The Institute of Social Hypocrisy, Paris.

2006 A. Schaughnessy, non-format, Pyramyd, Paris, p. 116.

2005 U. Grosenick (ed.), Art Now Vol 2, Taschen, Köln, p. 92.

M. Krebber, Außerirdische Zwitterwesen, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, Köln, p. 80 & 122.

2004 Nueva Generación, Distrito 4, Madrid, Spain.

2003 T. Groetz (ed.), Berlin, 1994-2003, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, p. 29 & 40.

2002 U. Grosenick (ed.), Art Now, Taschen, Köln, p. 84. V. Beuvart (ed.), Vitamin P, Phaidon, London, p. 58.

2001 M. Collings, Art Crazy Nation, 21 Publishing, London, p. 212.

CATALOGUES

2018 Merlin Carpenter: Do Not Open Until 2081 (Simon Lee Gallery, London)

2016 La Collection Thea Westreich Wagner et Ethan Wagner (Centre Pompidou, Musee national d’art Modern, Paris, France). M. Ammer, A. Hockdörfer, D. Joselit, Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, DelMonico, Prestel, London, Munich, London, New York, p.219.

2015 Collected by Thea Westreich and Ethan Wagner (The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY). Midcareer Paintings (Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland).

2014 Merlin Carpenter – POLICE (dependence, Brussels).

2011 The Opening, Sternberg Press, Berlin. Merlin Carpenter (Formalist Sidewalk Poetry Club, Miami).

2008 Zodiac 3000 (International Project Space, Birmingham).

2007 Relax It's Only a Bad Cosima von Bonin Show (Galerie Bleich-Rossi, Vienna).

2002 Militant (Christian Nagel Gallery, Köln).

2001 Jewels-in-Art (with Jeremy Glogan, Josephine Pryde and Sarah Staton) (Galerie Bleich-Rossi, Graz).

2000 As a Painter I Call Myself the Estate of (Secession, Vienna).

1995 Voluntary Effort (Tom Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles).

1993 Meet You by the Strange Twisted Old Oak Tree on the Secluded Knoll at Dawn in Your Swimming Trunks and I'll Tell You Something Secret (Merlin Carpenter and Nils Norman, in association with Galerie Z, Göttingen).

ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

2017 ‘London Round-up: The Room • One Paved Court • Simon Lee’, Art Monthly (December 2017 - January 2018). ‘Merlin Carpenter: Do Not Open Until 2081’, Whitelies (November 2017). G. Vasey, ‘Merlin Carpenter: Do Not Open Until 2081’, ARTWORKS LONDON (November). M. Gerlis, ‘Copyright keeps pictures under wraps’, Financial Times (10 November). ‘Merlin Carpenter Can’t Let You See His New Paintings (They Might Be Against the Law)’, Artnet News (2 November). ‘Merlin Carpenter’, Wall Street International (1 November). S. Morris, ‘The Man In The Mirror Sarah Morris On Merlin Carpenter At Galerie Neu, Berlin’ Texte Zur Kunst, No. 107 (September). L. Considine, ‘Triumph of the Banal: Merlin Carpenter’s DECADES and the Legacy of the Handmade Readymade’, X-TRA (Spring 2017).

2016 K. Jentjens, ‘Love is Hate’, Metropolis M: 94-101. C. Busta, ‘Bad Canon’, Texte Zur Kunst, No.100: 114 – 121.

2015 A. Rosenmeyer, Merlin Carpenter: Midcareer Paintings, Art Review (December): 119 J. Chung & Q.T. Madea, Best of 2015, Artforum (December): 208-9 ‘Merlin Carpenter – Midcareer Paintings’, We Find Wilderness (21 October). D. Roeschmann, ‘Nach dem Jugendbonus’, Artline (Freiburg) (2 October). H. Lagger, ‘Kunsthalle hat die Krise’, Bz Berner Zeitung (21 September): 4. M. Bieri, ‘Das Nur-so-tun-als-ob un seine Grenzen’, Der Bund (Bern) (21 September): 27. F. Lerch, ‘Kritik als Schein statt Pinslerfleiss, Journal B (Bern) (18 September). L. Tichy, ‘Das grosse Augenzwinkern’, Berner Kulturagenda, no. 38 (17 September): 3. Anon., ‘Sehr böse’ Annabelle (9 September): 56. S. Wurster, ‘Mein Kinderwagne, mein Kuhlschrank, mein Superbike’, Berliner Tageszeitung (21 June): 15. M. Pobywajlo, ‘Merlin Carpenter at MD 72’, Archive Collective, Kansas City (31 May). ‘Merlin Carpenter at MD 72’, Contemporary Art Writing Daily (28 May) T. Widmann, ‘The Desaturation of Graffiti’, May, no. 14 (August): 125.

2014 O. Cha, ‘Merlin Carpenter’, Flash Art (October): 100-101.

2013 O. Frolov, ‘Merlin Carpenter Goes East’, Texte Zur Kunst (December): 223-227.

2012 D. Marcus, ‘Proposal for a Museum’, SFMOMA | OPEN SPACE Blog (6 December). A. Leigiehn, ‘Austellen, Wo Andere Urlaub Machen’, Texte Zur Kunst Online (25 September). M. Pollack, ‘Interiors: Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940’ at the Jewish A. Russeth, ‘Who Is Henry Codax? And Other Tales of Secret Art’, The New York Observer (5 June). N. Asfour, ‘A Courageous little gallery takes on MoMA’, The New York Observer Online (5 June). ‘Museum and Gallery Listings: Merlin Carpenter: ‘Tate Café’, The New York Times (25 May): C18. R. Smith, ‘Merlin Carpenter: ‘Tate Café’, The New York Times (18 May): C27 B. Sutton, ‘Artist Merlin Carpenter Made a Painstaking Copy of the Tate Café on the Lower East Side’, Artinfo.com (15 May). R. Smith, ‘Promising Tyros Join an Art Fair Club’, The New York Times (9 March): C25. A. Hunt, ‘Merlin Carpenter: Simon Lee Gallery, London’, Frieze (March): 169. L. McLean-Ferris, ‘West London’, Art Review (January/February): 103.

2011 L. Owens, ‘The Artists’ Artists’, Artforum (December): 102. M. Hermes, ‘Mitteilungen an die Presse und für die Öffentlichkeit Manfred Hermes über Merlin Carpenter Bei MD72, Berlin’, Texte zur Kunst, no. 82 (June): 260. M. Prince, ‘Merlin Carpenter: MD72 – Berlin’, FlashArt (May-June): 160. C. Taft, ‘Merlin Carpenter: Overduin & Kite’, Artforum (May): 296. S. Mizota, ‘Yes, he invited the copycat, Los Angeles Times Online (25 February): 18.

2010 S. Snowden, ‘And Now, Gentlemen, The Shirts Off Your Back, If You Please’, Idiom Online (9 December). A. Kleinman, “All That Glitters: Merlin Carpenter at Formalist Sidewalk Poetry Club”, ArtAgenda Online (2 December). J. Lieberman and C. Sharp, ‘Waxing Durr’, Art Lies, no. 66 (Summer): 20.

2009 C. Chevalier, ‘Event/not Event’, May Revue, no. 2 (October): 47. M. Collings, ‘An Artist of our Time’, Modern Painters (Summer): 18-20. M. Coomer, ‘Merlin Carpenter: The Opening’, Art Review (Summer): 124. L. Lambrecht, ‘The Opening’, KNACK (14 July): 55. M. Sperlinger, ‘Holy Terror, On Merlin Carpenter at Simon Lee Gallery, London’, Text Zur Kunst (June, English Version): 119-120. S. Ashton, ‘Canvases and Careers Today: Criticism and Its Markets’, MAP, no. 17 (Spring): 93. L. Buck, ‘Biting the hand that feeds you’, The Art Newspaper (May): 47. E. Terazona, ‘Kunst ist Kapital’, Financial Times (9 April): 18. S. Reyburn, ‘Banks Attacked at Art Show as London Galleries Fight to Survive’, Bloomberg Online (7 April). J. Lack, ‘Merlin Carpenter’, The Guardian Guide (28 March): 39.

2008 M. Fusco, ‘Canvases and Careers Today: Criticism and Its Markets’, Frieze Online, no. 119 (November-December). R. Smith, ‘At Frieze fair, creativity and caution’, International Herald Tribune (21 October): 20. S. Aston, ‘Atrocity Exhibition’, MAP, no. 15 (Autum): 54. C. Knight, ‘After the party, the depletion’, Los Angeles Times Online (22 February).

M. Seidel, ‘Élegance’, Kunstforum, no. 189 (January/February): 340.

2007 C. Busta, ‘Merlin Carpenter - Reena Spaulings Fine Art’, Artforum (December): 355. J. Kelsey, ‘Top Ten’, Artforum (December): 322. A. Armetta, ‘Merlin Carpenter, The Opening,’ Time Out New York (18 October): 99. M. Schwendener, ‘Merlin Carpenter - The Opening’, The New York Times (5 October): E41. A. Rottmann, ‘Relax It's Only Merlin’, Texte Zur Kunst, no. 66 (June): 67. H. Hafner, ‘Merlin Carpenter - Relax It's Only a Bad Cosima von Bonin Show’, Spike, no. 11 (Spring): 95. Anonymous, ‘Showcase - Arts & Culture’, Creative Review 27, no. 3 (March): 36.

2006 G. Moreno, ‘Merlin Carpenter – Geneva’, Art Papers (November/December): 55. S. Lewitt, ‘Club You Can't Get Into’, Texte Zur Kunst, no. 63 (September): 242. I. Graw, ‘Von Hier Aus’, Texte Zur Kunst, no. 63 (September): 64. C. Rattemeyer, ‘Make Your Own Life: Artists In & Out of Cologne’, Artforum (Summer): 344. R. Smith, ‘Cologne as Mythic Hot Spot (Cue the Background Music)’, The New York Times Online (2 June). K. Stone Sonnenborn, ‘Merlin Carpenter - Reena Spaulings Fine Art’, Frieze, no. 97 (March): 164.

2005 I. Graw, ‘Merlin Carpenter - Galerie Christian Nagel’, Artforum (November): 265. J. Pryde, ‘Da Bin Ich Machtlos’, Texte Zur Kunst, no. 58 (June): 175.

2004 V. Zarza, ‘Merlin Carpenter’, ABC Blanco Y Negra Cultural, no. 662: 32.

2003 G. James, ‘Please Kill Me’, Texte Zur Kunst, no. 51 (September): 155.

J. Kelsey, ‘Merlin Carpenter - American Fine Arts, Co.’, Artforum (October): 171. A. Mar, ‘Gallery - Going’, The New York Sun (7 August): 16. K. Johnson, ‘Merlin Carpenter - Children of the Projects’, The New York Times (13 June): E37.

2002 Anonymous, ‘Focus Painting Part II’, Flash Art, no. 227 (November): 81. M. Prince, ‘Painting & Photography’, Art Monthly (October): 2. M. Krebber, ‘An der langen Leine’, Texte Zur Kunst, no. 46: 116 . Anonymous, ‚Merlin Carpenters Kunstzitate‘, Kölner Stadtanzeiger (19 February): p. 26.

2001 M. Harris, ‘Merlin Carpenter - Magnani’, Art in America (July): 111. M. Wilson, ‘Merlin Carpenter/Sigmar Polke’, Art Monthly (February): 34. M. Archer, ‘Merlin Carpenter Magnani’, Artforum (February): 163.

2000 M. Bunz, ‚Wo ist Kunst?‘, De-Bug (October): 32. A. Wagner, ‘Das Picabia-Verfahren’, Frame (July/August): 62. J. Pryde, ‘Merlin Carpenter at Secession’, Modern Painters (Summer): 52. M. Prinzhorn, ‘Dislozierte Ikonen’, Texte Zur Kunst, no. 38 (June): 142. M. Dusini, ‘Malen Nach Zahlen’, Falter, no. 17: 61.

1999 S. Leeb, ‘Notorische Zweifel’, Texte Zur Kunst, no.35 (September): 316.

1998 J. Koether, ‘Chant No 1’, Texte Zur Kunst, no. 30 (June): 168. A. Kempkes, ‘Prinzipiell Sekundär’, SPEX (March): 54.

1996 I. Graw, ‘Vermintes Gelände’, Texte Zur Kunst, no. 23 (August).

1994 G. Goodrow, ‘Ironically Playful’, Artnews (September): 111. R. Smith, ‘For the New Galleries of the 90s, Small (and Cheap) is Beautiful’, The New York Times (22 April). J. Decter, ‘Merlin Carpenter - Petzel/Borgmann’, Artforum (Summer).

1993 G. Schwering and C. Marx, ‘Merlin Carpenter - Max Hetzler’, ZYMA (March/April). T. Holert, ‘Merlin Carpenter - Max Hetzler’, Flash Art (March). W. Köhler, ‘Merlin Carpenter - Bruno Brunnett Fine Arts’, ARTIS (June). U. Clewing, ‘Frech Kommt Weiter’, ZITTY (March).

TEXTS BY THE ARTIST

2018 ‘The Outside Can’t Go Outside’, Sternberg Press.

2017 ‘Line of Control’, Control Magazine, Issue 20, London (January).

2016 ‘Blogs of the Near Future’, press release for exhibition at dépendance, Brussels (September).

2015 ‘The Outside Can’t Go Inside’. (Presented at USC Roski lecture (December), HEAD Geneva lecture, (April)).

2013 ‘A Certain Lack of Coherence’. (Support nightclub experience Nightclub Press Release, Porto, Portugal).

2012 ‘Welcome to the Tate Café: A conversation between Merlin Carpenter, Emily Sundbald and John Kelsey (March, Paris).

2011 Introduction to ‘Complete Poetry by Nicolás Guagnini’ (100% Publications, New York, NY).

2010 Excerpts in ‘The Sound of Downloading Makes Me Want to Upload’, Frenetic Happiness, Paris. ‘Fashion is Fun, with Stefano Pilati’, Texte Zur Kunst, no. 78 (June): 52 & 116.

2009 ‘(PROJECT BY NANG GALLERY)’, Pigiarniq, no. 17 (May): 61.

2008 ‘The Tail That Wags The Dog’, undelivered lecture, in ‘Canvases and Careers Today: Criticism and Its Markets’, Sternberg Press, Berlin, p. 75. ‘The Tail That Wags The Dog’, undelivered lecture, published on the Artist’s website. ‘The Face: Stripped’, Mute, no. 2: 106.

2007 ‘David Hockney, 1971’, Texte Zur Kunst, no. 67 (September): 183 & 270.

2004 ‘Back Seat Driver’, Pacemaker (June).

2002 ‘Back Seat Driver’, Gitarren, die nicht Gudrun heißen, Galerie Max Hetzler/Holzwarth Publications, Berlin. ‘Media Guy’, Texte Zur Kunst, no. 45 (March): 155.

2000 ‘The Sound of Bamboo’, catalogue essay for ‘Apothekerman’ by Michael Krebber, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Stätische Galerie Wolfsburg, Walther König. ‘The Protest Had Already Impacted on London in the Form of its Absence’, with Anthony Davies, catalogue essay for ‘As a Painter I Call Myself the Estate of’, Secession, Vienna

1999 ‘Concentration’, A.N.Y.P., no. 9: 7.

1998 ‘Der Nichtzerbrochene Nichtspiegel’, Texte Zur Kunst, no. 31 (September): 66.

1997 ‘The Charlatans’, SPEX (September): 12.

‘Ein Haufen Sprache (Robert Smithson)’, SPEX (February): 53.

1992 ‘Robert Smithson’, Texte Zur Kunst, no. 5: 205.

1990 ‘I Was an Assistant’, Texte Zur Kunst, no. 1 (Autumn): 119.

VIDEOGRAPHY

2009 ‘Carpenter’s Road’, 2009. Screened at The Institute of Social Hypocrisy, Paris (2010). * Mini DV Format.

2004 ‘Cancer’. Screened at the McAllister Institute, New York, March. * Quicktime Movie Format.

1998 ‘Love is a Contact Sport’ (Part of Doppelganger).

1997 ‘The Making of 1945’. Screened at the McAllister Institute, New York, March (2002).

1994 ‘Why Henry Bond Left the Art Fair So Quickly’. For Omron screening, London (1995).

1992 ‘Untitled’. Blow-Up remake for ‘Meadow/Wiese’.

1991 ‘Untitled’. Documentation on ‘To the extreme’ for Luhring Augustine (not shown).

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

US Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

FRANCE Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

UK The British Council, London, UK